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DURER, Albrecht. - Georges DUPLESSIS. Oeuvre de Albert Durer. Paris: Amand-Durand, [circa 1877.] Folio (449 x 318mm.) 108 loose photogravure plates of Durer's work tipped-in on 107 sheets. (Occasional mark to margins.) Original blue cloth, gilt lettering to upper cover (fading, spine worn). Note: complete.

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LOT 3676

BIBLE, In English. The Universal Bible: Or, Every Christian Family's Best Treasure. Containing the Sacred Text of the Old and New Testament at Large. London: J. Coote, 1758. Folio (410 x 262mm.) Title in red and black, 46 engraved plates including 3 maps, separate titles dated 1759 for NT and 'Apocrypha', 26pp. 'Index' to rear. (Browning, occasional marginal damp-staining, marginal tear and loss to 5C, 2 plates with large tears to margins, 1 plate with closed tear, front blank replaced.) Contemporary panelled calf (rebacked, endpapers replaced).

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LOT 3677

MANUSCRIPT. - Sophia Barbara MOULE. Sketches and Drawings. [N.p.: 1833-1850.] 92pp., manuscript, folio (413 x 306mm.) Hand-painted title with decorative border, 201 watercolour and pencil sketches, mainly of Southern England and Yorkshire, mounted onto 93 sheets, 23 blank leaves to rear. (Toning, light spotting to fore-edge.) Near contemporary red half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt lettering to spine (rubbing to extremities). Note: The views are mainly of landscapes, churches and country-houses. Sophia Moule was the daughter of Thomas Moule, mapmaker and writer. Provenance: E.W. Margesson (name inscribed on 'presented by' bookplate to front pastedown); West Sussex County Council (labels to front pastedown).

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LOT 3678

GOSSE, Edmund W. Cecil Lawson, a Memoir. London: The Fine Art Society, 1883. Folio (473 x 366mm.) 6 plates on cream laid paper, woodcut illustrations mounted in the text. (Toning, lacking 'Whistler's 'The Swan and the Iris', damp-staining to upper margin of 5 plates, spotting to tissue-guards.) Original vellum boards (damp-stained, dust-soiled and minor loss to spine). - And a further seven volumes related to art (including Maria Star's 'Visions de Beauté', inscribed by Star, 1907, folio, and Emmanuel Auricoste's 'Images de Femmes', 1946, disbound, and 26 etched plates from 'Fifty Choice Examples of Modern Etching', [1889], folio (8).

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LOT 3680

MAP REFERENCE. - Ir. C. KOEMAN (editor). Atlantes Neerlandici, Bibliography of terrestrial, maritime and celestial atlases and pilot books, published in the Netherlands up to 1880. Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Ltd., 1967-1971. 5 vols., 4to (310 x 236mm.) Numerous illustrations, 1 folding chart, 2pp. of additions and corrections tipped-in. (Toning.) Original blue cloth (lightly rubbed to extremities). - And a further thirteen volumes related to map reference (18).

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LOT 3682

MILLAIS, John Guille. The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1904-1906. 3 vols., limited edition this being number 454 of 1025 copies, large 4to (348 x 309mm.) Titles in red and black, numerous photogravure and chromolithographed plates, tissue-guards. (Toning, light spotting to margins and tissue-guards.) Original blue cloth, t.e.g. (lightly rubbed, minor scuffing). Provenance: George J. Chapman (stamp to title-pages) (3).

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LOT 3684

BOLTON. Royal Visit- 10th July, 1913. Photographs. [Bolton: n.p.: 1913.] Oblong folio (318 x 409mm.) 40 black and white photographs mounted on card of George V and Queen Mary visiting Bolton in 1913, including 16 smaller format photographs, 2pp. of newspaper cuttings mounted to rear. (Toning, occasional mark to margins.) Contemporary black morocco, gilt lettering to upper cover, gilt turn-ins, g.e. (rubbing to extremities, minor scuffing to lower cover). Note: George V and Queen Mary visited over fifty towns in the North West in 1913 and this memorial of the visit was presented to the Bolton mayor of the time, Dr. James Young. Provenance: Dr. James Young (gilt lettering to upper cover).

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LOT 3685

DUMAS, Alexander. [The Works.] London: J.M Dent & Co., 1894-1899. 49 vols., 8vo (184 x 118mm.) Frontispieces, tissue-guards. (Toning, browning to endpapers.) Original green cloth, decorative gilt to spines, t.e.g. (light rubbing, occasional marks to covers). Provenance: from the estate of Ernest Joseph Ellis, Derbyshire (49).

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LOT 3690

FORSTER, E.M. Passage to India. London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1924. First edition, 8vo (188 x 120mm.) 3pp. publisher's advertisements to rear. (Some spotting to preliminaries, fore-edge and intermittent spotting within.) Original red cloth (slight fading to spine, lightly rubbed). [Kirkpatrick A10, p.43.]

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LOT 3691

RUSSIA. - Peter Simon PALLAS. Travels Through the Southern Provinces of the Russian Empire, in the Years 1793 and 1794. London: A. Strahan for T.N. Longman et al., 1802-1803. 2 vols., first edition, 4to (253 x 194mm.) 55 stipple-engraved or aquatint plates and maps, including 43 hand-coloured of which 20 folding, numerous hand-coloured vignettes in the text, 13pp. and 10pp. indices to rear, errata leaf in vol. 2. (Toning, marginal spotting to 3S3-3T3 of volume 1 and to 1 map, marginal insect-damage to A1-A3 of volume 1, occasional offsetting.) 20th century half calf with original morocco lettering pieces to spines (endpapers replaced). [Tooley, 357.] (2).

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LOT 3692

MARTIN, Montgomery R. The Illustrated Atlas, and Modern History of the World, Geographical, Political, Commercial and Statistical. London: J. and F. Tallis, [1851.] Folio (370 x 279mm.) Decorative title, extra-illustrated with 111 engraved plates, including 1 folding and 2 comparative views of waterfalls by J. Rapkin with contemporary outline colouring and vignette illustration. (Lacking frontispiece of the 'Great Exhibition', 'Contents' and letterpress title, toning, a crease to 'Hungary', occasional marginal spotting and finger-mark, folding plate trimmed at margin, 'Newcastle' present but excised, minor soiling to 'The Lakes of Cumberland, Westmoreland, &c', some spotting to 'New York'.) Contemporary half calf (spine lacking, boards detached, worn). Provenance: Jane Hannah Horner (name inscribed to front-free endpaper). Note: normally published with 81 engraved plates, the 30 extra here are also published by J. and F. Tallis and are mainly street plans of U.K. cities but also includes a double-paged plan of New York and a plan of Boston.

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LOT 3693

GARDENING. - William ROBINSON. The Wild Garden, or the Naturalization and Natural Grouping of Hardy Exotic Plants with a Chapter on the Garden of British Wild Flowers. London: John Murray, 1895. Fifth edition, limited, being one of 280 copies, author's copy, 8vo (219 x 138mm.) Illustrations by Alfred Parsons, several marks and pencil annotation by the author. (Spotting to preliminaries and rear leaves, toning.) Original full vellum by Birdsall, gilt lettering to spine, gilt borders and floral corner-pieces to covers (faint scuffing to lower cover). Provenance: William Robinson (Gravetye Manor bookplate to front pastedown); Ernest Markham, head gardener to William Robinson (inscribed to by the author); Peter Herbert, late owner of Gravetye Manor (bookplate to the front-free endpaper). - And a further copy of 'The Wild Garden', signed by the author [to Mary Gilpin, William Robinson's nurse], 1929, 8vo) (2).

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LOT 3694

GARDENING. - William ROBINSON. The Wild Garden, or, Our Groves and Shrubberies Made Beautiful by the Naturalization of Hardy Exotic Plants. London: John Murray, 1870. First edition, 8vo (185 x 117mm.) Frontispiece, 32pp. publisher's advertisements to rear. (Spotting to preliminaries, damp-stain to margin of frontispiece, occasional corner crease.) Original green cloth, floral gilt to covers and spine (lightly bumped extremities). Note: scarce. The book that made William Robinson's reputation. Provenance: Kate Brooks (pencil inscribed to front-free endpaper); Peter Herbert, late owner of Gravetye Manor (bookplate to front pastedown).

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LOT 3696

GARDENING. - William ROBINSON. The English Flower Garden. London: John Murray, 1883. First edition, 8vo (227 x 140mm.) Numerous illustrations. (Mild toning, initial blank replaced.) Mid-20th century brown half calf over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt lettering to spine (endpapers replaced). Note: considered one of the most influential books on gardening, this work went through fifteen editions in Williams' lifetime. In rejecting the 'barren geometry' of the formal garden, Williams instead proposed gardens that emphasised the diversity of nature.

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LOT 3697

GARDENING. - William ROBINSON. The English Flower Garden. London: John Murray, 1926. Fourteenth edition, inscribed and signed by William Robinson, 8vo (232 x 149mm.) Numerous illustrations. (Mild toning, spotting to preliminaries.) Original blue cloth (joints worn, sunning to spine). Provenance: Will Ingwersen, alpine specialist (bookplate to front pastedown); Peter Herbert, late owner of Gravetye Manor (bookplate to front-free endpaper).

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LOT 3698

GARDENING. - William ROBINSON. The English Flower Garden. London: John Murray, 1883. First edition, 8vo (232 x 150mm.) Numerous illustrations. (Toning, occasional light spotting.) Original brown cloth, pictorial gilt to upper cover and spine (inner hinge weakened, joints split). Note: considered one of the most influential works on gardening, this work went through fifteen editions in Williams' lifetime. In rejecting the 'barren geometry' of the formal garden, Williams instead proposed gardens that emphasised the diversity of nature. Provenance: Peter Herbert, late owner of Gravetye Manor (bookplate to front pastedown). - And a further three volumes by William Robinson (including, with a mounted a.l.s., 'The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds', 1909, 8vo, and 'Alpine Flowers For English Gardens', 1870, 8vo, and a further copy of 'The English Flower Garden', 1921, 8vo) (4).

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LOT 3699

COUNTRY HOUSES. - William ROBINSON. Wood Fires For the Country House & Cottage. London: John Murray, [1924.] First edition, author's copy, 4to (248 x 183mm.) Numerous ink annotations and emendations by the author and re-writes on paper tipped-in to the text. (Mild toning.) Original red cloth (slight fading). - And a further copy of 'Wood Fires For the Country House & Cottage', signed by the author, [1924], 4to) (2).

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LOT 3700

BINDING. - Denys WATKINS-PITCHFORD. 'B.B.' A Carp Water (Wood Pool) and How To Fish It. London: Putnam, 1958. First edition, 8vo (213 x 135mm.) Frontispiece and headpieces by the author. (Mild toning.) Later green half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards (endpapers replaced).

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LOT 3701

COOKERY. - Elizabeth RAFFALD. The Experienced English Housekeeper, for the Use and Ease of Ladies, Housekeepers, Cooks, &c. London: R. Baldwin, 1794. Eleventh edition, 8vo (213 x 124mm.) Engraved portrait frontispiece, 3 folding engraved plates, 14pp. 'Index', 2pp. publisher's advertisements to rear. (Marginal repairs to two plates, browning.) Contemporary calf (rebacked, endpapers replaced, tips repaired). Provenance: Mrs. Woodley Francis (contemporary ink name inscribed to initial blank); Peter Herbert (bookplate to front pastedown). - And a further copy (Elizabeth Raffald's 'The Experienced English Housekeeper', 1799, 8vo) (2).

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LOT 3702

MANUSCRIPT. [A diary of an American infantryman, E.J. Anderson of the 139th F.A, stationed in France and covering the last few months of the F.W.W. N.p.:] Sept. 1918-Dec. 1918. 14pp., manuscript, 12mo (148 x 95mm.) Comprising 14pp. of entries in a clearly legible hand describing the movements of the 139th F.A. from America to England and to France, covering the signing of the armistice and witnessing President Wilson's arrival in Brest on the 13th December, to negotiate peace and discuss the creation of a 'League of Nations'. (Toning, finger-marks.) Original card covers (upper cover partially missing). Note: the first entry describes how, prior to landing in France a 'depth bomb was dropped for a submarine following us'. E.J. Anderson then describes the route from Freeport Illinois on 25th May to Liverpool, to Cherbourg, a convoy of '55,000 soldiers'. On 26th October there's a 'wreck on the Etat Railway hauling the 138 F.A. 20 killed and 36 injured. Bodies mangled beyond recognition'. However, Father Finnegan is soon showing them 'points of interest' in the local area, and these are remembered and detailed with some precision. On 7th November there's 'Rumour of Germany surrendering to Wilson'. On the 12th, 'armistice signed 5.40 am. Hostilities ceased 11am' and, a few days later, 'war over, don't give a damn'. On December 13th President Woodrow Wilson arrives in Brest, to a '23-gun salute' which Anderson witnesses, and he notes 'Mrs. Wilson with him and riding in [a] car behind the President. Whole city of Brest turned out for him'. They are 'ordered to leave for home' on the 14th December and the last entry, two days later, notes the 'pleasant and calm sea'.

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